Oregon got off to an 8-0 lead and never looked back. Not once did the Huskies threaten. Not once did they really look like a first-place team.

I’m not surprised. Really, I’m not — and it’s not because I’m a Coug. It’s because this is Pac-12 basketball, and it’s been this way for a long time.

The Pac-12 teams always seem to beat each other up. Lots of other conferences seem to have two or three teams that run away from the rest, but anything can happen in the Pac-12. (Unless you’re playing Utah or USC — they really stink.)

And it’s not like all the Pac-12 teams are good; they’re all fairly mediocre. But even when the Pac-10 was excellent, back in the late 2000s, you still had top teams losing to bottom teams.

Nearly every Pac-12 team has dropped a game it should have won. California lost to Washington State on Jan. 21. Oregon lost to Oregon State on Jan. 29. Colorado shouldn’t have been blown out by Arizona 71-57 on Thursday. And let’s not even get started on the non-conference bombs, like Washington’s home loss to South Dakota State or UCLA’s season-opening embarrassments against Loyola Marymount and Middle Tennessee.

With the loss in Eugene, Washington fell to 9-3 in conference and 16-8 overall. Most NCAA Tournament projections had the Huskies as just an 11 or 12 seed — before the loss — and California as a 10 or 11 seed. And these are the top two teams in the Pac-12.